Doug Bracewell faces fitness test after cutting foot

Doug Bracewell has suffered a mystery foot injury at home over the weekend and will have to prove his fitness tomorrow for the first Test against England.

The New Zealand seamer missed practice at Dunedin’s University Oval today and will have to demonstrate he can bowl without discomfort tomorrow morning to stay in contention to play on Wednesday. Ian Butler, the Otago seamer, has been called into the squad as cover with a final decision to be taken after training tomorrow.

The gash to his foot is thought to have occurred when he was clearing up after a house party away from New Zealand duty.

“I’ll be working with Doug and Heath to get to the bottom of it,” Mike Sandle, the New Zealand team…